I took part last year, and I couldn’t help but make myself available to Laura Marciani for the 2025 edition of “With the Heart on the Plate.” An event that is as difficult to describe as it is deeply fulfilling — in every sense — when you decide to experience it in person.
There are moments when food stops being just nourishment for the body and becomes something deeper, more intimate. It becomes a warm embrace, a gesture of care, an act of love. This is the spirit of With the Heart on the Plate, the event that brings together taste and solidarity, flavor and hope, turning each dish into an initiative dedicated to those in need.
Every dish tells a story. A story of someone who prepares it with passion, carefully selecting every ingredient, thinking not only about flavor but about the smile it will spark on the face of the person receiving it. In every bite there is the work of those who believe that food can be a bridge between hearts, a universal language capable of bringing together people, cultures and generations.
With the Heart on the Plate is not just a culinary event: it is a meeting of souls. Laura loves to call it “an embrace.” It is tangible proof that beauty is born from sharing, that solidarity has a thousand forms — and one of them is caring for others through food.
Because, in the end, cooking has always been this: a quiet yet powerful way of saying, “I care about you.”
